Axis History Forum

This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjerne’s Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day.
Founded in 1999.

concerning Eisenach... I've checked a divisional history of the 21. Pz.-Div. (Neu) by Jean-Claude Perrigault and it lists Oberst Helmuth Zollenkopf in charge of this division (m.d.F.b.) for these dates: 25.01.1945 - 12.02.1945. He relieved Edgar Feuchtinger, who was to be courtmartialed... Zollenkopf would be relieved by Generalleutnant Werner Marcks, last commander of 21. Pz.-Div. Marcks was put in charge of the division on 10.02.1945 (same source). Von Luck in "Panzer Commander" places Marcks' arrival at the division in the early morning of 10.02.1945. Apparantely, von Luck considered Marcks as "ambitious, a hard man and ruthless in carrying out orders..." Other info on Oberst Hellmuth Zollenkopf while in command of the 21. Pz.-Div. are rather scarce...